Susan Ellingwood

Susan Ellingwood is the associate vice president of public affairs at Columbia University, where she is the editorial director of the University’s home page, news outlet, and social media channels. She oversees a social media team, a video team, and two public affairs officers who liaise with communications staff at three undergraduate schools, 14 graduate and professional schools, and more than 200 centers and institutes at the University.

Prior to joining Columbia in 2019, she spent more than 25 years in journalism, most recently at The New York Times on the Books desk for three years, and in Op-Ed and Opinion for 15 years, where she was a founding editor of Room for Debate, The Conversation, and On Campus. Susan has also worked at the Committee to Protect Journalists, The Wall Street Journal, Brill's Content, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. She holds a BA in Russian and international studies from Dickinson College and did her graduate work at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. She is the editor of two books (What We Saw and America At War) and a producer of the Times-HBO documentary, Last Letters Home.